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June 4, 1971

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Headlines from June 4, 1971

U.S. TO SELL SOVIET TRUCK EQUIPMENT

By Edwin L. Dale Jr. Special to The New York Times

Nixon Adm, in sudden policy shift, decides to license shipments to USSR of over $50-million worth of Amer equipment, chiefly for mfr of light trucks; question of licensing for mfr of larger trucks remains undecided; no official explanation is offered; recent extremely sluggish flow of orders and rising unemployment in Amer machine-tool and capital goods industries seen factors; observers note large potential export possibilities in new Soviet truck-making complex on Kama River

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Nixon Proposes $50,000 For Slain Policemen's Kin

By Robert B. Semple Jr. Special to The New York Times

Mitchell, following meeting on police slayings, discloses that Nixon has called for Fed legis to provide $50,000 to family of any policemen slain in line of duty; says legis will be forwarded to Cong in further indication of Adm's support of law enforcement officers throughout nation; says that benefits for slain policemen vary widely from state to state and in some cases are insufficient; meeting detailed; opposition to proposal noted

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 2, 1971, covering June 4, 1971.

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    Album cover for Sticky Fingers by The Rolling Stones

    Sticky Fingers

    The Rolling Stones

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    4
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    Album cover for Jesus Christ Superstar by Various Artists

    Jesus Christ Superstar

    Various Artists

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    Album cover for 4 Way Street by Crosby| Stills| Nash & Young

    4 Way Street

    Crosby| Stills| Nash & Young

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    7
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    Album cover for Tapestry by Carole King

    Tapestry

    Carole King

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    9
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    Album cover for Mud Slide Slim And The Blue Horizon by James Taylor

    Mud Slide Slim And The Blue Horizon

    James Taylor

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Notable Births

Joseph Kabila

1971Joseph Kabila, Congolese soldier and politician, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo[†]

Joseph Kabila Kabange is a Congolese politician and former military officer who served as the fourth President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2001 to 2019. He took office ten days after the assassination of his father, President Laurent-Désiré Kabila in the context of the Second Congo War. He founded the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD) in 2002 and was allowed to remain in power after the 2003 Pretoria Accord ended the war as the president of the country's new transitional government. He was elected as president in 2006 and re-elected in 2011 for a second term. Since stepping down after the 2018 election, Kabila, as a former president, serves as a senator for life. Kabila was the country's second-longest serving president.

Mike Lee

1971Mike Lee, American lawyer and politician[†]

Michael Shumway Lee is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Utah, a seat he has held since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Lee became Utah's senior senator in 2019, when Orrin Hatch retired, and the dean of Utah's congressional delegation in 2021, when Representative Rob Bishop retired.

1971Shoji Meguro, Japanese director and composer[†]

Shoji Meguro is a Japanese composer, guitarist, and video game designer. Formerly an employee of the game company Atlus, he is best known for his work in their Shin Megami Tensei and Persona series. His music spans several genres, such as rock, electronic, J-pop, jazz, and symphonic. Meguro has also designed indie games and was the creative director of the PlayStation Portable remakes of Persona and the Persona 2 duology.

Noah Wyle

1971Noah Wyle, American actor and producer[†]

Noah Strausser Speer Wyle is an American actor, writer, producer and director. He rose to fame as John Carter in the NBC medical drama ER (1994–2009), receiving five Emmy Award nominations, three Golden Globe Award nominations and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. Since 2025, he has starred as Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch in the HBO Max medical drama The Pitt.

Notable Deaths

György Lukács

1971György Lukács, Hungarian historian and philosopher (born 1885)[†]

György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, literary historian, literary critic, and aesthetician. He was one of the founders of Western Marxism, an interpretive tradition that departed from the Soviet Marxist ideological orthodoxy. He developed the theory of reification, and contributed to Marxist theory with developments of Karl Marx's theory of class consciousness. He was also a philosopher of Leninism. He ideologically developed and organised Lenin's pragmatic revolutionary practices into the formal philosophy of vanguard-party revolution.

Historical Context for June 4, 1971

In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]